Dogpound kept getting whacked around. I watched from the bottom of the steps with my arms crossed. Even with my setback with not reading Shredder’s mind, nobody had to tell me he was mad at Dogpound.
The poor guys kept getting hit every which way, whining with each hard hit. I gritted my teeth harder each and every time he got hit. Shredder growled in anger. My bones went cold. Thankfully, he’s not mad at me… Not yet anyway…
“The Turtles have defeated every single one of the FootClan!” Shredder roared. “The Foot you have now aren’t even privileged enough to wear the emblem of a Foot!” he unsheathed his blades again, making my skin prickle. “I need strong soldiers now!”
That’s when I picked up Dogpound’s thoughts. It felt good, yet weird because I haven’t done it in so long. He ran through the list of Foot soldiers before jumping out of the way from Shredder’s blades.
“But,” Dogpound complained, lowering his ears. “That’s impossible!”
Shredder walked up to Dogpound. Bradford couldn’t anywhere, because either way Shredder would get at him. He must’ve known because as Shredder was coming toward him, he hunched up his shoulders, lowered his ears, and shivered.
Thankfully, the Kraang made their weird noise just barely. My body stiffened, remembering that stupid night… But I still never regretted it… Shredder looked at the Kraang and I slowly lowered one of my hands to cover that wound.
“Maybe there is a way to create an army of ninjas,” Shredder growled. I looked at him, then the Kraang shocked. He seriously wasn’t…? “An idea we will steal from the Kraang…”
Hearing it’s name, the pink brain in the droid looked up at Shredder and growled in the high pitched voice. I had heard enough… Walking out, I shook out my stiff limbs, toward my treasure in the Mutagen.
The glass kept me separated from it. It made me disappointed, but I wasn’t going to change it because it already happened… I couldn’t change or stop something once I started it. Then I couldn’t touch the Mutagen, or else I would be forever different…
Suddenly, a sharp cracking sound caught my ear and I looked around. The metal clamps made for the Mutagen box to get the treasure out was sitting right beside the box. I quickly grabbed them and jumped up on the edge of the box, being careful with my balance.
Reaching the clamps in, I grabbed the small oval and pulled it up. Of course, Mutagen was still stuck to it, but it would either drip away or dry quickly. I jumped back down, but I didn’t want to shake the Mutagen off.
That’s when Shredder, Dogpound, Reiley, and even Karai. My mind told me to run with my treasure and the clamps, but the outer layer was quickly breaking. So I quickly set my prize down and backed up.
“It’s for our end of the deal,” Shredder growled. “Reiley.”
Reiley stepped forward and tried to take off the outer layer without touching the fast-acting Mutagen. She succeeded and took what was beneath the layer, walking off with it to our shared room.
It pained me to see it go. Why was I the one that always had something happen to them? Oh yeah, I do and care a lot, so I wouldn’t harm my actual family. Mikito thought I was a troubled Yin and Yang. That’s somewhat true… I can be more than that.
“Very good,” Shredder’s voice said. He even circled around me, putting his hand on my shoulder. “I would have killed you if you didn’t give it up.”
“I keep my promises…” I said. That was more than seventy percent true. It also depended on who the promises were to. Currently, I was making Shredder an exception.
He growled and walked off, leaving me looking at the ground, questioning why I let it lead to this.
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Total Turtle Transformation (TMNT Book 4)
FanficNine Turtles with their own set of personalities, strengths, and weaknesses learn that one is starting to change sides, and one of them is encouraging it! So with nine Turtles running the streets, will this change of faith turn into eight again?
